Prociv P
Department of Parasitology, University of Queensland, St Lucia Australia.
J Wildl Dis. 1990 Oct;26(4):532-4. doi: 10.7589/0090-3558-26.4.532.
Adults of the large nematode, Toxocara pteropodis, have not previously been reported from extra-intestinal sites in their hosts, juvenile flying-foxes (fruit-bats of the genus Pteropus). In one captive bat which died unexpectedly, a nematode was found coiled within the gall bladder and common bile duct; in another a nematode was in the esophagus and protruded into the laryngopharynx. Like other ascaridoids, this species is capable of aberrant migration.
